NY Times twists on horns of secular free will dilemma
Posted on Tuesday, March 22, 2011 under pontifications • 1 comment • read it ⇒A critical look at a New York Times article that discusses the tension between the idea that all the events in the universe are caused deterministically by physical laws, and our deep-seated intuitive belief that this cannot be so because we have free will.
Annotating the Catholic Encyclopedia: free will
Posted on Friday, May 4, 2007 under polemics • no comments • read it ⇒An extensive investigation of libertarian free will, using the Catholic Encyclopedia’s entry on the topic as a launchpad. I quote the Encyclopedia, interacting with it at each major point, and demonstrate how the teaching of libertarianism contradicts both the Bible and plain reason.
On Freedom, Responsibility, and Meaning
Posted on Thursday, March 15, 2007 under polemics • 12 comments • read it ⇒In the coffee shop today I happened to cast my eye over a National Geographic, and noticed an interview with Francis Collins, the head of the Human Genome Project. The interview was conducted by John Horgan, who no doubt has some claim to fame of which I am quite unaware. Collins is described as a [...]